For months, Google has maintained that the web is “thriving,” AI isn’t tanking traffic, and its search engine is sending people to a wider variety of websites than ever. But in a court filing from last week, Google admitted that “the open web is already in rapid decline” (with regard to advertising, kinda-sorta)
If the internet were a forest, Google opines the forest is in such poor shape while Google uses and sells chain saws.
In your analogy I think Google sells chainsaws, lumber, wood stoves, and paper pulp.